ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Franciscan Institute Publications of St. Bonaventure University has published a new study of St. Francis of Assisi’s rule of 1221.
That s what we can find out today by watching this extraordinary film from the BBC archive. In the short video, journalist Alan Whicker interviews Brother Walter Wilman, a hermit who lived in the tiny wooden structure adjoining All Saints Church in North Street for 30 years. The film, made in 1961 for the Tonight programme on BBC, takes us inside the world of Brother Walter, who had lived in the minuscule room since the 1930s. Brother Walter was the sacristan of All Saints Church in York who lived in the pulpit-like structure under the knave of 12th church in North Street. Alan Whicker in All Saints Church - by Brother Walter s cell